Poem by Christine Fojas

GRIEF

for Wei

Some years post-crime

I removed the bones from their furtive grave

Some flesh clings on:

This dried husk of a man who used to be

Someone I loved

And loathed about the same on the scale.

Somehow he lives on

In me; blood under skin, ash under nails.

Christine Fojas is a Filipino-Canadian hailing from Las Piñas City and currently living in Metro Vancouver. She has a BA in Comparative Literature from University of the Philippines and works as a library technician at Douglas College. A list of her publications can be found at her website. She also blogs at christinefojas.wordpress.com.